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Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Oxford English Monographs)

By Nicholas Hudson

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0198112149, 9780198112143
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9363711 bytes)
Edition
Underlining and Notarion
Pages
288\278
Time added
2023-12-25 14:24:15

Description

Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson's moral and religious thought, none have managed to provide a complete analysis of his relationship to the ethics and theology of the eighteenth-century. This major new study examines the background to Johnson's views on a wide range of issues that were debated by the philosophers and divines of the age, emphasizing the ambivalence and contradiction inherent in his orthodoxy, while challenging the assumption that his religious beliefs were unstable and filled with anxiety.

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